If Macau want to be just another chinese city, with their trade simply based in gambling they should encourage the learn of English.

If Macau want to be the China first channel to a world of opportunities with almost 250 million people, 8 different countries in Europe, Africa and America, including rising superpowers on their continents (Angola) and world (Brazil) they should continue and encourage Portuguese (the fourth most learned language in the world actually).

If Macau want to be just another chinese city, with their trade simply based in gambling they should encourage the learn of English.

If Macau want to be the China first channel to a world of opportunities with almost 250 million people, 8 different countries in Europe, Africa and America, including rising superpowers on their continents (Angola) and world (Brazil) they should continue and encourage Portuguese (the fourth most learned language in the world actually).

fourth, is this what they teach you in Portuguese school?

mandarin and english is 1st and 2nd place, then
we have spanish, french, arabic, indian, possibly russian, french and german that have more speaker then Portuguese.

I sort of agree with what you say,ability to speaks Portuguese should give you a little advantage over other parts of the world, but that advantage is only little, but view it from the other side of the coin, from Portugal, isn't ability to speaks Chinese/English more important, you create yourself a opportunities to well over 1billions people.

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I sort of agree with what you say,ability to speaks Portuguese should give you a little advantage over other parts of the world, but that advantage is only little, but view it from the other side of the coin, from Portugal, isn't ability to speaks Chinese/English more important, you create yourself a opportunities to well over 1billions people.

Dude, think twice! If "everybody" can speak Chinese/English, and there are just few speaking Chinese/Portuguese, those will benefit from their skills to profit.

Sir, you can't bear with the reality that the Portuguese language can play a very important role in Portuguese speaking countries. Compreendido?

I understand what you mean, my point is...

If, (just if) China/Macau decide to remove Portuguese as its official language (tomorrow, or prehaps slowly over next 10, 15 years). How will it change
the relations between China/Portugual Speaking countries change? And if there is any changes, who will lose more? China or Portugual Speaking countries.

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Are you sure 60% of Chinese people can speak Mandarin? Well, we are diving to another subject.

What is your estimate?

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If, (just if) China/Macau decide to remove Portuguese as its official language (tomorrow, or prehaps slowly over next 10, 15 years). How will it change
the relations between China/Portugual Speaking countries change? And if there is any changes, who will lose more? China or Portugual Speaking countries.

This is not a win or lose relationship. This is a win-win situation!

Anyway China wont decide to remove the Portuguese as official language because China is proud to respect their agreements.

It may be a little outdated, in terms of number of speakers, the ranking should not change that much, but in terms of most influential language, with the growth of China, India, and Portuguese speaking coutntries, the ranking may be very different now.

OK, Muchenyi, you are not going to read my link, Why don't you show us your source?

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Ow, my God! Portuguese is the 6th most learned language in the world in terms of native-speakers. Virtually nobody learns Portuguese as a foreign-language. It's so far behind German, French and Spanish as we cannot even compare. Italian, for example, is much more taught as foreign-language than Portuguese.

How many people in Macao can speak Portuguese? 5%? Portuguese language is completely irrelevant to Macao.

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It may be a little outdated, in terms of number of speakers, the ranking should not change that much, but in terms of most influential language, with the growth of China, India, and Portuguese speaking coutntries, the ranking may be very different now.

I am talking about numbers and you are talking about influence... for God sake... make a point!

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Ow, my God! Portuguese is the 6th most learned language in the world in terms of native-speakers. Virtually nobody learns Portuguese as a foreign-language. It's so far behind German, French and Spanish as we cannot even compare. Italian, for example, is much more taught as foreign-language than Portuguese.

Amigo Andrade, what do you want to prove with your "wise" comment?

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How many people in Macao can speak Portuguese? 5%? Portuguese language is completely irrelevant to Macao.

It's not how many, but how important it is! Read the whole topic before you start another shower of non-sense comments.

Reading this topic and few comments, I'd say everybody in Mainland' Central Government is wrong, and just a few guys here in the forum really understand the reality of Macau...

Well, I thought it was obvious, so let me spell: the number of native-learners it's not a good way to measure the importance of a language. Virtually nobody learns Portuguese as a foreign language, so there is no economic need at all for Macanese to learn it. And about Brazil, people are clearly overstating the importance of the country. It represents only a tiny portion of world's GDP and even a smaller of global trade.

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